[Cementjungle]

I’m discouraged, because I’m not seeing these huge increases being widely reported. All I see are reports that health care costs are going down and increases are in the single digits in most cases.

I've been a bit puzzled by this as well. I can only guess that employees will finally realize the impact on them in the upcoming weeks as their employers get settled on their 2015 group plans details.

As for those of us in the private insurance market, some of my friends (the conservative ones who actually buy insurance) have gotten increases, but are pretty much just sucking it up and hoping things get better next year. Liberal friends still don't buy their own insurance, so are still oblivious to the whole thing. The tax penalty for them this year won't be very high, so they think all is well for them.

[randita]

I’m sure there is tremendous WH pressure on the DBM not to report anything negative about this. How many days went by before there was any acknowledgement in the DBM of the Gruber quotes, if it was covered at all?